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STATS HISTORICAL SOCIETY 19334
HITT &. LOVRY ST. SERV
COLUMBIA, MO. 65201
71st Year No. 234 ( ioml Morningl It's Friday, June 2 1979 2 Sections 18 Pages 15 Cents
Increased rapes signal
local rise in violent crime
By Mary Wells
Missourian staff writer
A Thursday morning rape in
Columbia Boone County's fourth in
less than two weeks provides a grim
illustration for recently compiled
statistics that show violent crime is
increasing here.
Police are looking for a black male
who raped at knifepoint a 22- year--
old
Columbia woman in her home in a
sparsely populated southwestern
section of the city in the most recent
case.
Maj. Jim Smith, public relations
officer with the Columbia police, said
the police are looking for the man who
entered the woman's home by tearing a
screen off an unlocked front window.
The man put a towel over the
woman's face and raped her. The
victim was treated at the University
Medical Center for a minor knife cut on
her lower back, and released.
Two other rapes within the seven
days also were committed by black
males who threatened victims with
knives. Columbia police, however,
declined to say whether they believe the
three rapes are connected. The suspect
in the most recent rape is described by
police as about 5- fo- ot, 3- inc- hes ( 1.25- meter- s)
tall, 130 to 135 pounds ( 53.5 to
60.8 kilograms) , with a mustache.
In the fourth rape case, Boone County
Sheriffs Department officials are
looking for a white male, in his late 20s
or early 30s, 5- fo- ot, 8- inc- hes to 6- f- oot
( 1.7- - to 2- met- ers) tall, 170 to 180 pounds
( 76.5 to 81 kilograms), with medium to
stocky build. In that case, which oc-curred
June 17 in northern Boone
County, a 16- year-- old girl was kid-napped
and raped after her boyfriend
was assaulted on VS. 63 by the suspect,
who stopped to render aid after the
couple experienced engine trouble.
Rape and other violent crimes are
increasing in Columbia, according to
statistics compiled by the Columbia
Police Department, and police officials
blame it on a lenient criminal justice
system in the courts.
The city crime report for the first five
months of 1979 shows that rape, armed
robbery and aggravated assault each
have doubled or nearly doubled,
compared to the first five months of
1978.
In Columbia, the number of rapes
from January to May rose from six in
1978 to 10 this year. Armed robberies
for the same periods rose from 18 to 37.
Aggravated assaults rose from 52 to
109. I
The Thursday rape brought the I
number of reported county rapes in the
first half of this year to 14. That number
already exceeds the annual total of 13
reported in 1976 and 1977, and ap-proaches
the 17 reported rapes in 1978.
Police have made no arrests in the
June rapes. Two suspects were
arrested May 15 in connection with a
reported gang rape that had occurred
three days earlier. That rape was one of
three reported in May all within
three days of one another.
And one suspect also was arrested on
May 15 in connection with a reported
rape in Fulton in late April one of
three rapes reported within three
weeks in that city.
None of the suspects has come to trial
yet.
Police Chief David Walsh, reflecting
on the growing number of violent
crimes in Columbia, said, " If you're
looking for trends to explain this ( the
increases) or some psychological ex--
( See VIOLENT, Page 12A)
Carter says cooperation needed
to fight extraordinary' oil price
TOKYO ( UPI) President Carter
warned today the United States and its
industrial partners face an " economic
watershed" over the new OPEC price
increases and said it is " imperative"
they cooperate to conserve energy.
" There is no one on earth," Carter
said, " who will fail to suffer from these
extraordinary increases in oil prices."
Carter made his remarks shortly
before the leaders of the Big Seven
industrial nations began the final day of
the two- da- y summit determined to
hammer out a compromise oil con-servation
plan in the face of the 24
percent increase in crude imposed
Thursday by the OPEC nations.
Carter, foregoing a four- da- y
Hawaiian vacation to fly home Sunday
to take personal charge of the energy
situation, said " the American people
are aroused, Congress is aroused, we
must act without delay" in countering
the latest move by the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries.
" The OPEC nations have just in-creased
their prices again by an ex-traordinary
amount. The cumulative
effect of these increases has been a 60
percent increase in the price of oil since
last December," Carter said in a
prepared statement.
" This causes an economic watershed
for the United States and the rest of the
world. So far we in the United States
have failed to prepare ourselves."
Carter said the OPEC increase can
mean a 2 percent increase in America's
rate of inflation and slash the nation's
economic growth rate by a similar 2
percent.
Saying the United States had " failed
to take action to deal with the
inevitable," Carter urged Congress to
pass the windfall profits tax on the
giant oil firms and establish an energy
security fund.
" Our country is able to be self- sufficie- nt.
We have the technical
ability, we have the finances, and we
have the natural resources ."
He said he would cut short his Asian
trip Sunday after a two- da- y visit to
South Korea and return home " to en-courage
the Congress to act more ex-peditiously."
Earlier Thursday, the House passed
and sent to the Senate a bill that would
tax windfall profits of oil companies by
60 percent a more stringent levy than
Carter had asked but less than the 70
percent the House Ways and Means
Committee had urged.
The Big Seven summit ends today,
and Carter aides said the oil con-servation
compromise that appeared
imminent would satisfy U. S. energy
requirements and Europe's desire for
long- ran- ge conservation.
OPEC move will lift
prices to new levels
By Youssef M. Ibrahim
NewYork Times
GENEVA The Organization
of Petroleum Exporting Countries
adopted a complicated pricing
formula Thursday that will raise the
price of oil to new levels ranging
from a minimum of $ 18 to a ceiling of
$ 23.50 a barrel.
I In general terms the agreement,
reached at the conclusion of a dif-ficult
and strained three- da- y
meeting of the 13 OPEC member
countries, will add 16 percent to the
average price of OPEC oil, although
the impact of the increase will be
less in the United States, which
obtains roughly half its oil from
domestic sources.
The increase, following the
leapfrogging surcharges added by
members of the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries
recently, makes the aggregate price
rise close to 50 percent so far this
year. This is expected to shave
economic growth in the industrial
nations, abet accelerating inflation
and perhaps upset the currency
markets.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the
United Arab Emirates announced
that they would charge the lower
price, $ 18 a barrel. Because Saudi
Arabia is by far the largest OPEC
producer, the new average price of
OPEC oil will be about $ 20 a barrel,
compared with the present average
of between $ 17.50 and $ 18, according
to petroleum specialists.
The price increases dismayed the
Carter administration and private
American economists, and more
inflation and less economic growth
were predicted. A sharp drop in the
consumer's purchasing power was
forecast, with a rise of 5 cents a
( See LAST, Page 12A)
Oil prices force update
of world energy policies
By Paul Lewis
New York Times
GENEVA OPEC is being cruel
to be kind. The complicated but
fragile new price list which the 13
members of the oil exporters' cartel
finally published Thursday,
probably will raise most consumers
fuel bills some 15 percent on average
inafullyear.
This increase, coming on top of tne
leap- froggi- ng surcharges that
Organization of Petroleum Ex- -
oorting Countries members have
been demanding for their oil in
recent weeks, carries the aggregate
I
orice rise to close to 50 percent so far
Sis year. It will shave economic
growth in a Western world already
tottering towards its second
Insight
recession in five years, give another
shove to accelerating Inflation and
perhaps beat up currency markets
again, just when they are coming off
the boil.
But higher oil prices remain a
necessary medicine which the
Western industrial economies must
swallow, even if it leaves a bitter
taste. Thursday's agreement means
that the price of imported oil will
start rising faster than the price of
automobiles, haircuts or TV sets for
the first time since OPEC
( See OPEC, Page 12A)
" "
Toons McGuirc
The trucks continue their shipping rounds as when a partial allotment of fuel arrived
usual at Universal Coal and Energy Co. of Thursday. Universal will be able to continue
Harrisburg despite the threat Wednesday of a supplying Columbia with its daily 600- to- n ( 540--
shutdown. The company avoided the shutdown metric- ton- ) shipment of coal.
Oil shipments
to Harrisburg mine
ease coal problem
By Boyce Thompson
Missourian staff writer
Any fears that the supply of coal to the Columbia
municipal power plant might be cut off in the next two
weeks were erased Thursday when the Harrisburg mine,
which supplies the power plant with coal, received 15,000
gallons ( 57,000 liters) of oil essential to the mine's
operation.
Mike Sinicropi, president of the Universal Coal and
Energy Co., which runs the mine, said an additional 23,000
gallons ( 875400 liters) of oil promised to the company by
the Sun Oil company would arrivetoday..
Thursday's shipments included 7,000 gallons ( 26,600
liters) from the Sun Oil company and 8,000 gallons ( 30,400
liters) from the Amoco Oil company. The oil from Amoco
was bought through the state's " set- asid- e" program, in-stituted
in 1973 to deal with crisis situations in energy
production.
Universale oil supply problems over the last two weeks
have stemmed from a decision by Sun Oil, which supplies
Universal with its oil, to cut off Universal's contracted
allocations at 42,294 gallons ( 160,717 liters). The oil com-pany
had contracted to supply Universal with 120,000
gallons ( 456,000 liters) of oil for June.
j
IVMBMcGuJre 1
Thursday's and today's new oil shipments will tide I
Universal over until the beginning of July, when the I
company hopes to begin receiving its normal monthly I
shipments again. I
Universal, which requires 3,000 gallons ( 11,400 liters) of
oil a day to run its mine, has a contract with Sun Oil for
120,000 gallons ( 456,000 liters) of oil again next month.
Sinicropi said there may be problems then, too.
Due to the cut- of- f, Universal has for the last two weeks
been forced to apply for emergency allocations from
various oil companies through the " set- asid- e" program
and to buy oil on the open market for the last two weeks.
Sinicropi said he thought the oil he had been buying on
the open market had gotten there illegally.
U. S. will double refugee quota
From oar wire services
President Carter announced from
Tokyo Thursday that the Unied States
will double, to 14,000, the number of
Indcchinese refugees accepted monthly
as part of an international effort to
rescue the " boat people."
Carter's announcement came shortly
before the meeting of Western and
Southeast Asian nations this weekend in
which the Southeast Asian nations are
expected to confront United States
Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance with
the question of how far the West is
prepared to go in accepting the
refugees.
The survival of the 325,000 refugees
now in transit camps and the num-berless
ones still to come will depend on
the Western answer, American and
other diplomats believe.
Malaysia and Thailand, which have
been turning away refugees and
pressing for increased acceptance of
refugees by Western nations, have been
told that the decision was made in
direct response to their appeal for help
that would enable them to let more
refugees into their camps, U. S. officials
said.
So far the United States has accepted
about 215,000 refugees since the Viet-nam
War, France is second with 52,000
and Australia third with 20,000, ac-cording
to U. N. figures. Japan has
given permanent settlement to only 10
Indochinese refugees but has fixed a
quota to take up to 500.
Carter hoped his decision would
provide a lead for other countries to
make large increases in their help for
refugees. It was announced after the
seven big industrial democracies said
here they would " significantly increase
their contribution to Indochinese
refugee relief and resettlement by
making more funds available and by
admitting more people."
The current program to settle 7,000
refugees a month in the United States is
costing $ 250 million a year. This is
divided by the federal government
among local governments, voluntary
agencies and international agencies.
US. officials said doubling the
number of refugees would add about
$ 150 million a year to the costs.
Malaysia, earlier this month,
threatened to force its 75,000 " boat
people" back out to sea in hopes its
actions would help persuade Indonesia
to provide the United Nations with an
island capable of receiving, tem-porarily,
as many as 200,000 refugees.
At a United Nations refugee con-ference
in December, the United States
refused to make Guam available for
this purpose, but Malaysia renewed the
idea publicly Wednesday. Indonesia
has offered an island to accept tem-porarily
10,000 refugees.
Olson presents grant requests
to M. U. Board of Curators' panel
By David Hagelin
Missourian staff writer
Gov. Joseph Teasdale has yet to
approve state grants that will enable
the University system administration
to allocate its 1979- 3- 0 budget But at a
Board of Curators committee meeting
Thursday at the Kansas City campus,
University President James Olson
presented requests for state grants for
1980- 8- 1.
The board will consider the ad-ministration's
requests for physical
plant funding at its July meeting. The
Missouri General Assembly must have
the system's requests by Oct 1. Bom
the state Coordinating Board of Higher
Education and the Legislature even--
tuaDy must approve the requests.
Requests for physical plant
preservation and improvements hold
top priority, Olson said. Other requests,
in order of priority, fall into the areas of
energy conservation, handicapped
accessibility compliance and new
construction.
Of the $ 33 million proposed for
physical plant funding requests, $ 14
million is, for repairs. Olson said the
Legislature this year approved about
$ 14 million for the total physical plant
v.
budget
Most of the money the system is
requesting to help comply with
regulations making the campuses
accessible to the handicapped will go to
the Columbia campus. " Columbia has
moved the furthest of any campus in
mis area," Olson said.
The proposed library storage
building, which was not given funds by
Related story on Page 12A
the Legislature this year, has been
designated a first- priorit- y construction
item.
Olson said the storage facility, which
would serve all four campuses, would
make the University's EHis Library " a
more satisfactory user library."
Construction of a library for the
School of Medicine library for the
Columbia campus is among the items
for which state funding has been
requested for 1930- 81- .
Curator C. R. Johnston questioned the
need for additional specialized
libraries.
In response. University Chancellor
Barbara Uebling suggested the board
" walk through the law and medical
school libraries" and compare con
ditions there with conditions at other
Big Fight school libraries.
A proposed addition for the School of
Law on the Columbia campus will be
partly financed by a private fund- raisi- ng
effort Dr. Uehling is planning.
In the area of energy conservation,
Thomas Hussey, assistant vice
president for business affairs, said the
Columbia campus " needs a thorough
study of its physical plant to decide on a
conservation plan that will take us
through the next five years."
When Curator Marian Oldham asked
whether adoption of electrical or solar
heating would be cheaper for the
Columbia campus than the current use
of coal, Hussey said these methods are
not feasible right now, but are future
possibilities.
At the Academic Affairs Committee
meeting, UMKC Dean of Students Gary --
Widmar outlined a current project
aimed at preventing students from
leaving school.
He said a task force is " looking at a
way to combine academic advising,
personal counseling and the Learning
Center" into an integrated program.
Ms. Oldham said this effort should be
expanded to the other system cam-puses.
Inside today
Somoza may quit
Nicaraguan President
Anastasio Somoza has told UJS.
officials that he will resign the
leadership of his revolutionary- tor- n
nation if the conditions are
acceptable. See details page 3A.
ImfowEft
today
9 am. - 3 pjn. Annual Art
Department Undergraduate
Student Exhibition at the
University Fine Arts Gallery.
7: 30 p. m. An Evening of
Tennessee Williams, selected
scenes from Williams' plays at
the Warehouse Theatre, Stephens
College. Free.
7: pjn. " Twelfth Night,"
Shakespeare at the Maplewood
Bam Theatre, Nifong Park.
Adults $ 2, senior citizens and
students 6 and older $ 1, children
under 6free.
8: 15 pjn. MOSSPAC Chamber
Orchestra, Bill Jackson,
saxophonist, Hugo Vianello,
conductor, at the University Fine
Arts Recital HalL Tickets HS0 at
the door.

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STATS HISTORICAL SOCIETY 19334
HITT &. LOVRY ST. SERV
COLUMBIA, MO. 65201
71st Year No. 234 ( ioml Morningl It's Friday, June 2 1979 2 Sections 18 Pages 15 Cents
Increased rapes signal
local rise in violent crime
By Mary Wells
Missourian staff writer
A Thursday morning rape in
Columbia Boone County's fourth in
less than two weeks provides a grim
illustration for recently compiled
statistics that show violent crime is
increasing here.
Police are looking for a black male
who raped at knifepoint a 22- year--
old
Columbia woman in her home in a
sparsely populated southwestern
section of the city in the most recent
case.
Maj. Jim Smith, public relations
officer with the Columbia police, said
the police are looking for the man who
entered the woman's home by tearing a
screen off an unlocked front window.
The man put a towel over the
woman's face and raped her. The
victim was treated at the University
Medical Center for a minor knife cut on
her lower back, and released.
Two other rapes within the seven
days also were committed by black
males who threatened victims with
knives. Columbia police, however,
declined to say whether they believe the
three rapes are connected. The suspect
in the most recent rape is described by
police as about 5- fo- ot, 3- inc- hes ( 1.25- meter- s)
tall, 130 to 135 pounds ( 53.5 to
60.8 kilograms) , with a mustache.
In the fourth rape case, Boone County
Sheriffs Department officials are
looking for a white male, in his late 20s
or early 30s, 5- fo- ot, 8- inc- hes to 6- f- oot
( 1.7- - to 2- met- ers) tall, 170 to 180 pounds
( 76.5 to 81 kilograms), with medium to
stocky build. In that case, which oc-curred
June 17 in northern Boone
County, a 16- year-- old girl was kid-napped
and raped after her boyfriend
was assaulted on VS. 63 by the suspect,
who stopped to render aid after the
couple experienced engine trouble.
Rape and other violent crimes are
increasing in Columbia, according to
statistics compiled by the Columbia
Police Department, and police officials
blame it on a lenient criminal justice
system in the courts.
The city crime report for the first five
months of 1979 shows that rape, armed
robbery and aggravated assault each
have doubled or nearly doubled,
compared to the first five months of
1978.
In Columbia, the number of rapes
from January to May rose from six in
1978 to 10 this year. Armed robberies
for the same periods rose from 18 to 37.
Aggravated assaults rose from 52 to
109. I
The Thursday rape brought the I
number of reported county rapes in the
first half of this year to 14. That number
already exceeds the annual total of 13
reported in 1976 and 1977, and ap-proaches
the 17 reported rapes in 1978.
Police have made no arrests in the
June rapes. Two suspects were
arrested May 15 in connection with a
reported gang rape that had occurred
three days earlier. That rape was one of
three reported in May all within
three days of one another.
And one suspect also was arrested on
May 15 in connection with a reported
rape in Fulton in late April one of
three rapes reported within three
weeks in that city.
None of the suspects has come to trial
yet.
Police Chief David Walsh, reflecting
on the growing number of violent
crimes in Columbia, said, " If you're
looking for trends to explain this ( the
increases) or some psychological ex--
( See VIOLENT, Page 12A)
Carter says cooperation needed
to fight extraordinary' oil price
TOKYO ( UPI) President Carter
warned today the United States and its
industrial partners face an " economic
watershed" over the new OPEC price
increases and said it is " imperative"
they cooperate to conserve energy.
" There is no one on earth," Carter
said, " who will fail to suffer from these
extraordinary increases in oil prices."
Carter made his remarks shortly
before the leaders of the Big Seven
industrial nations began the final day of
the two- da- y summit determined to
hammer out a compromise oil con-servation
plan in the face of the 24
percent increase in crude imposed
Thursday by the OPEC nations.
Carter, foregoing a four- da- y
Hawaiian vacation to fly home Sunday
to take personal charge of the energy
situation, said " the American people
are aroused, Congress is aroused, we
must act without delay" in countering
the latest move by the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries.
" The OPEC nations have just in-creased
their prices again by an ex-traordinary
amount. The cumulative
effect of these increases has been a 60
percent increase in the price of oil since
last December," Carter said in a
prepared statement.
" This causes an economic watershed
for the United States and the rest of the
world. So far we in the United States
have failed to prepare ourselves."
Carter said the OPEC increase can
mean a 2 percent increase in America's
rate of inflation and slash the nation's
economic growth rate by a similar 2
percent.
Saying the United States had " failed
to take action to deal with the
inevitable," Carter urged Congress to
pass the windfall profits tax on the
giant oil firms and establish an energy
security fund.
" Our country is able to be self- sufficie- nt.
We have the technical
ability, we have the finances, and we
have the natural resources ."
He said he would cut short his Asian
trip Sunday after a two- da- y visit to
South Korea and return home " to en-courage
the Congress to act more ex-peditiously."
Earlier Thursday, the House passed
and sent to the Senate a bill that would
tax windfall profits of oil companies by
60 percent a more stringent levy than
Carter had asked but less than the 70
percent the House Ways and Means
Committee had urged.
The Big Seven summit ends today,
and Carter aides said the oil con-servation
compromise that appeared
imminent would satisfy U. S. energy
requirements and Europe's desire for
long- ran- ge conservation.
OPEC move will lift
prices to new levels
By Youssef M. Ibrahim
NewYork Times
GENEVA The Organization
of Petroleum Exporting Countries
adopted a complicated pricing
formula Thursday that will raise the
price of oil to new levels ranging
from a minimum of $ 18 to a ceiling of
$ 23.50 a barrel.
I In general terms the agreement,
reached at the conclusion of a dif-ficult
and strained three- da- y
meeting of the 13 OPEC member
countries, will add 16 percent to the
average price of OPEC oil, although
the impact of the increase will be
less in the United States, which
obtains roughly half its oil from
domestic sources.
The increase, following the
leapfrogging surcharges added by
members of the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries
recently, makes the aggregate price
rise close to 50 percent so far this
year. This is expected to shave
economic growth in the industrial
nations, abet accelerating inflation
and perhaps upset the currency
markets.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the
United Arab Emirates announced
that they would charge the lower
price, $ 18 a barrel. Because Saudi
Arabia is by far the largest OPEC
producer, the new average price of
OPEC oil will be about $ 20 a barrel,
compared with the present average
of between $ 17.50 and $ 18, according
to petroleum specialists.
The price increases dismayed the
Carter administration and private
American economists, and more
inflation and less economic growth
were predicted. A sharp drop in the
consumer's purchasing power was
forecast, with a rise of 5 cents a
( See LAST, Page 12A)
Oil prices force update
of world energy policies
By Paul Lewis
New York Times
GENEVA OPEC is being cruel
to be kind. The complicated but
fragile new price list which the 13
members of the oil exporters' cartel
finally published Thursday,
probably will raise most consumers
fuel bills some 15 percent on average
inafullyear.
This increase, coming on top of tne
leap- froggi- ng surcharges that
Organization of Petroleum Ex- -
oorting Countries members have
been demanding for their oil in
recent weeks, carries the aggregate
I
orice rise to close to 50 percent so far
Sis year. It will shave economic
growth in a Western world already
tottering towards its second
Insight
recession in five years, give another
shove to accelerating Inflation and
perhaps beat up currency markets
again, just when they are coming off
the boil.
But higher oil prices remain a
necessary medicine which the
Western industrial economies must
swallow, even if it leaves a bitter
taste. Thursday's agreement means
that the price of imported oil will
start rising faster than the price of
automobiles, haircuts or TV sets for
the first time since OPEC
( See OPEC, Page 12A)
" "
Toons McGuirc
The trucks continue their shipping rounds as when a partial allotment of fuel arrived
usual at Universal Coal and Energy Co. of Thursday. Universal will be able to continue
Harrisburg despite the threat Wednesday of a supplying Columbia with its daily 600- to- n ( 540--
shutdown. The company avoided the shutdown metric- ton- ) shipment of coal.
Oil shipments
to Harrisburg mine
ease coal problem
By Boyce Thompson
Missourian staff writer
Any fears that the supply of coal to the Columbia
municipal power plant might be cut off in the next two
weeks were erased Thursday when the Harrisburg mine,
which supplies the power plant with coal, received 15,000
gallons ( 57,000 liters) of oil essential to the mine's
operation.
Mike Sinicropi, president of the Universal Coal and
Energy Co., which runs the mine, said an additional 23,000
gallons ( 875400 liters) of oil promised to the company by
the Sun Oil company would arrivetoday..
Thursday's shipments included 7,000 gallons ( 26,600
liters) from the Sun Oil company and 8,000 gallons ( 30,400
liters) from the Amoco Oil company. The oil from Amoco
was bought through the state's " set- asid- e" program, in-stituted
in 1973 to deal with crisis situations in energy
production.
Universale oil supply problems over the last two weeks
have stemmed from a decision by Sun Oil, which supplies
Universal with its oil, to cut off Universal's contracted
allocations at 42,294 gallons ( 160,717 liters). The oil com-pany
had contracted to supply Universal with 120,000
gallons ( 456,000 liters) of oil for June.
j
IVMBMcGuJre 1
Thursday's and today's new oil shipments will tide I
Universal over until the beginning of July, when the I
company hopes to begin receiving its normal monthly I
shipments again. I
Universal, which requires 3,000 gallons ( 11,400 liters) of
oil a day to run its mine, has a contract with Sun Oil for
120,000 gallons ( 456,000 liters) of oil again next month.
Sinicropi said there may be problems then, too.
Due to the cut- of- f, Universal has for the last two weeks
been forced to apply for emergency allocations from
various oil companies through the " set- asid- e" program
and to buy oil on the open market for the last two weeks.
Sinicropi said he thought the oil he had been buying on
the open market had gotten there illegally.
U. S. will double refugee quota
From oar wire services
President Carter announced from
Tokyo Thursday that the Unied States
will double, to 14,000, the number of
Indcchinese refugees accepted monthly
as part of an international effort to
rescue the " boat people."
Carter's announcement came shortly
before the meeting of Western and
Southeast Asian nations this weekend in
which the Southeast Asian nations are
expected to confront United States
Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance with
the question of how far the West is
prepared to go in accepting the
refugees.
The survival of the 325,000 refugees
now in transit camps and the num-berless
ones still to come will depend on
the Western answer, American and
other diplomats believe.
Malaysia and Thailand, which have
been turning away refugees and
pressing for increased acceptance of
refugees by Western nations, have been
told that the decision was made in
direct response to their appeal for help
that would enable them to let more
refugees into their camps, U. S. officials
said.
So far the United States has accepted
about 215,000 refugees since the Viet-nam
War, France is second with 52,000
and Australia third with 20,000, ac-cording
to U. N. figures. Japan has
given permanent settlement to only 10
Indochinese refugees but has fixed a
quota to take up to 500.
Carter hoped his decision would
provide a lead for other countries to
make large increases in their help for
refugees. It was announced after the
seven big industrial democracies said
here they would " significantly increase
their contribution to Indochinese
refugee relief and resettlement by
making more funds available and by
admitting more people."
The current program to settle 7,000
refugees a month in the United States is
costing $ 250 million a year. This is
divided by the federal government
among local governments, voluntary
agencies and international agencies.
US. officials said doubling the
number of refugees would add about
$ 150 million a year to the costs.
Malaysia, earlier this month,
threatened to force its 75,000 " boat
people" back out to sea in hopes its
actions would help persuade Indonesia
to provide the United Nations with an
island capable of receiving, tem-porarily,
as many as 200,000 refugees.
At a United Nations refugee con-ference
in December, the United States
refused to make Guam available for
this purpose, but Malaysia renewed the
idea publicly Wednesday. Indonesia
has offered an island to accept tem-porarily
10,000 refugees.
Olson presents grant requests
to M. U. Board of Curators' panel
By David Hagelin
Missourian staff writer
Gov. Joseph Teasdale has yet to
approve state grants that will enable
the University system administration
to allocate its 1979- 3- 0 budget But at a
Board of Curators committee meeting
Thursday at the Kansas City campus,
University President James Olson
presented requests for state grants for
1980- 8- 1.
The board will consider the ad-ministration's
requests for physical
plant funding at its July meeting. The
Missouri General Assembly must have
the system's requests by Oct 1. Bom
the state Coordinating Board of Higher
Education and the Legislature even--
tuaDy must approve the requests.
Requests for physical plant
preservation and improvements hold
top priority, Olson said. Other requests,
in order of priority, fall into the areas of
energy conservation, handicapped
accessibility compliance and new
construction.
Of the $ 33 million proposed for
physical plant funding requests, $ 14
million is, for repairs. Olson said the
Legislature this year approved about
$ 14 million for the total physical plant
v.
budget
Most of the money the system is
requesting to help comply with
regulations making the campuses
accessible to the handicapped will go to
the Columbia campus. " Columbia has
moved the furthest of any campus in
mis area," Olson said.
The proposed library storage
building, which was not given funds by
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the Legislature this year, has been
designated a first- priorit- y construction
item.
Olson said the storage facility, which
would serve all four campuses, would
make the University's EHis Library " a
more satisfactory user library."
Construction of a library for the
School of Medicine library for the
Columbia campus is among the items
for which state funding has been
requested for 1930- 81- .
Curator C. R. Johnston questioned the
need for additional specialized
libraries.
In response. University Chancellor
Barbara Uebling suggested the board
" walk through the law and medical
school libraries" and compare con
ditions there with conditions at other
Big Fight school libraries.
A proposed addition for the School of
Law on the Columbia campus will be
partly financed by a private fund- raisi- ng
effort Dr. Uehling is planning.
In the area of energy conservation,
Thomas Hussey, assistant vice
president for business affairs, said the
Columbia campus " needs a thorough
study of its physical plant to decide on a
conservation plan that will take us
through the next five years."
When Curator Marian Oldham asked
whether adoption of electrical or solar
heating would be cheaper for the
Columbia campus than the current use
of coal, Hussey said these methods are
not feasible right now, but are future
possibilities.
At the Academic Affairs Committee
meeting, UMKC Dean of Students Gary --
Widmar outlined a current project
aimed at preventing students from
leaving school.
He said a task force is " looking at a
way to combine academic advising,
personal counseling and the Learning
Center" into an integrated program.
Ms. Oldham said this effort should be
expanded to the other system cam-puses.
Inside today
Somoza may quit
Nicaraguan President
Anastasio Somoza has told UJS.
officials that he will resign the
leadership of his revolutionary- tor- n
nation if the conditions are
acceptable. See details page 3A.
ImfowEft
today
9 am. - 3 pjn. Annual Art
Department Undergraduate
Student Exhibition at the
University Fine Arts Gallery.
7: 30 p. m. An Evening of
Tennessee Williams, selected
scenes from Williams' plays at
the Warehouse Theatre, Stephens
College. Free.
7: pjn. " Twelfth Night,"
Shakespeare at the Maplewood
Bam Theatre, Nifong Park.
Adults $ 2, senior citizens and
students 6 and older $ 1, children
under 6free.
8: 15 pjn. MOSSPAC Chamber
Orchestra, Bill Jackson,
saxophonist, Hugo Vianello,
conductor, at the University Fine
Arts Recital HalL Tickets HS0 at
the door.